Investigation launched after Rikers Island inmate dies in custody – marking first ...
Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...
Rikers Island has first death of 2025, detainee had been held 19 months
A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, in the first death in the system in 2025, according ...
NYC Correction Dept. set to order mandatory 12-hour tours for officers again
The department last went to 12-hour tours during the 2021 and 2022 staffing crisis when hundreds of officers went sick ...
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Rikers Island detainee dies in custody, marking first such death of 2025, city says
The city Department of Correction said it was still investigating the death and had no further details on how the person died ...
Queens Daily Eagle1 天
Man held on Rikers for 19 months becomes first to die in jails in 2025
A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...
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Rikers Island detainee dies in jail complex's first death of 2025
A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...
Yahoo News UK2 天
NYC’s Rikers Island has first death of 2025, detainee had been held 19 months
The man, identified by sources as Ramel Powell, had been held in the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. He was sent to Rikers in July, 2023 – 19 months ago – on a parole violation related to a robbery ...